Decai Gao

1.6k total citations
35 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Decai Gao is a scholar working on Soil Science, Ecology and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Decai Gao has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Soil Science, 18 papers in Ecology and 11 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Decai Gao's work include Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (13 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (9 papers). Decai Gao is often cited by papers focused on Soil Carbon and Nitrogen Dynamics (24 papers), Peatlands and Wetlands Ecology (13 papers) and Climate change and permafrost (9 papers). Decai Gao collaborates with scholars based in China, Switzerland and United States. Decai Gao's co-authors include Edith Bai, Frank Hagedorn, Chunhong Zhao, Bo Peng, Weiwei Dai, Chao Wang, Ziping Liu, Ping Jiang, Xianlei Fan and Shengwei Zong and has published in prestigious journals such as The Science of The Total Environment, Scientific Reports and New Phytologist.

In The Last Decade

Decai Gao

34 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Decai Gao China 18 672 472 264 192 173 35 1.1k
Yoshitaka Uchida Japan 19 685 1.0× 412 0.9× 371 1.4× 134 0.7× 243 1.4× 60 1.3k
Jiao Feng China 24 841 1.3× 558 1.2× 302 1.1× 79 0.4× 211 1.2× 70 1.4k
Lettice C. Hicks Sweden 18 612 0.9× 468 1.0× 233 0.9× 106 0.6× 96 0.6× 34 943
Aimeric Blaud United Kingdom 14 830 1.2× 521 1.1× 263 1.0× 97 0.5× 196 1.1× 18 1.3k
Mounir Takriti Austria 7 969 1.4× 620 1.3× 316 1.2× 149 0.8× 340 2.0× 10 1.3k
Tian Ma China 18 555 0.8× 403 0.9× 302 1.1× 110 0.6× 114 0.7× 36 1000
Ling Song China 10 580 0.9× 413 0.9× 325 1.2× 136 0.7× 161 0.9× 12 932
Shinichi Asao United States 14 569 0.8× 410 0.9× 519 2.0× 202 1.1× 133 0.8× 19 1.2k
Ansa Palojärvi Finland 17 744 1.1× 361 0.8× 396 1.5× 130 0.7× 195 1.1× 39 1.3k
Courtney A. Creamer United States 16 827 1.2× 492 1.0× 174 0.7× 76 0.4× 233 1.3× 27 1.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Decai Gao

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Fields of papers citing papers by Decai Gao

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Decai Gao

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Decai Gao. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Decai Gao based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Decai Gao. Decai Gao is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Huimin, Frederick C. Meinzer, Xiaoqin Dai, et al.. (2025). Resource Segmentation: A New Dimension of the Segmentation Hypothesis in Drought Adaptive Strategies and Its Links to Tree Growth Performance. Plant Cell & Environment. 48(6). 3875–3889. 1 indexed citations
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Jiang, Qunou, Lifeng Yan, Huimin Wang, et al.. (2025). Nutrient additions have minor impact on microbial carbon use efficiency. Agriculture Ecosystems & Environment. 385. 109582–109582. 1 indexed citations
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Wang, Huimin, Manuel Delgado‐Baquerizo, Xiaoqin Dai, et al.. (2025). Nutrient enrichment shapes litter micro-food webs in a subtropical plantation. Forest Ecology and Management. 580. 122545–122545.
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Gao, Decai, et al.. (2024). Global prediction of soil microbial growth rates and carbon use efficiency based on the metabolic theory of ecology. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 190. 109315–109315. 20 indexed citations
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Gao, Decai, Jörg Luster, Matthias Arend, et al.. (2024). Drought resistance and resilience of rhizosphere communities in forest soils from the cellular to ecosystem scale – insights from 13C pulse labeling. New Phytologist. 242(3). 960–974. 3 indexed citations
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Shi, Wenjiao, Decai Gao, Zhen Zhang, et al.. (2024). Exploring Global Data Sets to Detect Changes in Soil Microbial Carbon and Nitrogen Over Three Decades. Earth s Future. 12(10). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Mingyu, Detian Li, Beat Frey, et al.. (2024). Land use modified impacts of global change factors on soil microbial structure and function: A global hierarchical meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 935. 173286–173286. 4 indexed citations
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Zheng, Huan, Josep Peñuelas, Jordi Sardans, et al.. (2024). Shrub encroachment leads to accumulation of C, N, and P in grassland soils and alters C:N:P stoichiometry: A meta-analysis. The Science of The Total Environment. 951. 175534–175534. 5 indexed citations
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Li, Na, Mai‐He Li, Yu Cong, et al.. (2024). Carbon allocation in Picea jezoensis: Adaptation strategies of a non-treeline species at its upper elevation limit. Forest Ecosystems. 11. 100188–100188. 1 indexed citations
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Fan, Xianlei, Di Meng, Ziping Liu, et al.. (2023). Ectomycorrhizal trees rely on nitrogen resorption less than arbuscular mycorrhizal trees globally. Ecology Letters. 27(1). e14346–e14346. 11 indexed citations
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Yang, Yue, Siyu Wang, Chunhong Zhao, Xiangyu Jiang, & Decai Gao. (2023). Responses of non-structural carbohydrates and biomass in plant to heavy metal treatment. The Science of The Total Environment. 909. 168559–168559. 20 indexed citations
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Gao, Decai, Qing Chang, Ziping Liu, et al.. (2022). Leaf enzyme plays a more important role in leaf nitrogen resorption efficiency than soil properties along an elevation gradient. Journal of Ecology. 110(11). 2603–2614. 12 indexed citations
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Liu, Ziping, Benjamin Z. Houlton, Decai Gao, et al.. (2022). Isotopic evidence for increased carbon and nitrogen exchanges between peatland plants and their symbiotic microbes with rising atmospheric CO2 concentrations since 15,000 cal. year BP. Global Change Biology. 29(7). 1939–1950. 9 indexed citations
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Gao, Decai, Jobin Joseph, Roland A. Werner, et al.. (2021). Drought alters the carbon footprint of trees in soils—tracking the spatio‐temporal fate of 13C‐labelled assimilates in the soil of an old‐growth pine forest. Global Change Biology. 27(11). 2491–2506. 38 indexed citations
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Ouyang, Shengnan, Arthur Geßler, Matthias Saurer, et al.. (2021). Root carbon and nutrient homeostasis determines downy oak sapling survival and recovery from drought. Tree Physiology. 41(8). 1400–1412. 26 indexed citations
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Gao, Decai, Ziping Liu, & Edith Bai. (2021). Effects of in situ freeze-thaw cycles on winter soil respiration in mid-temperate plantation forests. The Science of The Total Environment. 793. 148567–148567. 30 indexed citations
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Zhao, Chunhong, et al.. (2021). Spatiotemporal Analysis of AIDS Incidence and Its Influencing Factors on the Chinese Mainland, 2005–2017. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. 18(3). 1043–1043. 14 indexed citations
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Gao, Decai, Lei Zhang, Jun Liu, et al.. (2017). Responses of terrestrial nitrogen pools and dynamics to different patterns of freeze‐thaw cycle: A meta‐analysis. Global Change Biology. 24(6). 2377–2389. 87 indexed citations
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Xia, Zongwei, Edith Bai, Qingkui Wang, et al.. (2016). Biogeographic Distribution Patterns of Bacteria in Typical Chinese Forest Soils. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7. 1106–1106. 95 indexed citations
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Liu, Jun, Bo Peng, Zongwei Xia, et al.. (2016). Different fates of deposited and in a temperate forest in northeast China: a 15N tracer study. Global Change Biology. 23(6). 2441–2449. 44 indexed citations

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